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THE  WORLD  AT 
THE  CROSS  ROADS 


THE  NEW  WORLD  MOVEMENT 
OF  NORTHERN  BAPTISTS 


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The  World  at  the  Cross-Roads 


ALL  the  world  and  his  wile  are  sur^in^  alon^j  tlie  patli  o!  life — restless — Iretlul — 
L\  eager — seeking  they  know  not  what  until  He  who  once  said  “/  am  the  way'" 
JL  JL  crosses  their  pathway,  and  they  halt  a moment  in  donht:  the  choice  of  a new 
direction  is  offered  them — a spiritual  cross-roads. 

It  is  happening  every  day  when  the  old  meets  the  new,  when  the  ignorant  meets  the 
learned,  when  the  hungry  meets  a host,  when  the  poor  meets  a friend,  for  in  the  end  it  is 
the  meeting  of  personality  with  personality  that  creates  the  cross-roads,  with  the 
determining  choice  of  action  lying  with  each  person.  Never  before  in  the  history  of  the 
world  have  Christians  so  fully  grasped  the  significant  fact  that  they  are  at  the  cross-roads 
of  life  in  His  place,  that  the  decision  is  inescapably  theirs  in  which  direction  the  surging 
crowd  shall  be  urged  to  go:  Confucius  or  Christ  in  China Buddha  or  Christ  in  Japan? 
Brahma  or  Christ  in  India?  Fetishes  or  Christ  in  Africa?  Mammon  or  Christ  in  America? 

Since  Christianity  is  so  entirely  a matter  of  personality  we  are  not  featuring  many 
Baptist  buildings  in  this  booklet;  we  are  partly  familiar  with  them  already — these  churches 
and  schools  and  colleges  of  ours,  these  hospitals  and  dispensaries  and  Christian  centers, 
which  range  all  the  way  from  adequate  to  inadequate  as  the  following  pages  disclose. 
Bricks  and  stones  and  mortar  do  not  make  a mission  station;  the  gripping  appeal  on  every 
field  is  in  the  need  of  human  souls  as  dear  to  Jesus  Christ  as  yours  and  mine.  We  want  to 
look  into  the  faces  of  these  persons,  to  think  from  their  point  of  view;  and  curiously  enough, 
as  the  love  of  Christ  constrains  us,  our  response  will  be  in  terms  of  buildings.  For  God 
has  given  us  no  higher  way  to  worship  Him  than  in  the  distribution  of  our  possessions. 

We  have  set  ourselves  a goal:  $100,000,000  in  the  next  five  years!  Somewhere  on  the 
next  few  pages  each  of  us  will  feel  the  compelling  need  that  can  only  be  filled  as  we  project 
ourselves. 

Across  the  modern  chaos  of  selfishness  and  strife  comes  the  voice  of  one  crying  in  the 
wilderness:  “Prepare  ye  the  way  of  the  Lord;  make  straight  in  the  desert  a highway  for 
our  God.”  The  purpose  of  the  following  pages  is  to  picture  graphically  the  people  who 
tlu-ong  the  highways  of  fife,  who  reach  the  cross-roads  for  which  Baptists  are  responsible, 
who  eagerly  accept  the  Christ  who  said  of  Himself: 


AND 

I, 

IF 

I BE  LIFTED  UP,  WILL 

DRAW  

ALL 

MEN 

UNTO 

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HUNGRY 


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Old  and  tired,  her  Japanese  heart  seeks 
peace,  but  she  halts  a moment  on  her  long 
pilgrimage  to  ask:  “Will  I ever  really  find 
it?  Will  it  be  the  same  old  disappointment 
again?” 


That  I Knew  Where  I Might  Finl^ 


Is  it  of  this  jovial  bestial  Laughing  Buddha 
in  Pekin  that  the  Chinese  can  say:  “He 
was  moved  compassion?” 


Wasted  with  fastings,  and  conscious 
that  death  is  very  near,  she  has 
crawled  on  her  knees  to  the  sacred 
temple  at  Kalighat  where  she  is  wait- 
ing to  die,  longing  vrith  unspeakable 
wistfulness  for — Godt 


The  wiich-dortor  festoons  their  black  /xx/i’m  with 
fetishes,  he  interprets  the  omens,  he  foams  at  the 
mouth  with  religious  frenzy,  but  of  love  and  jieare 
and  joy  he  can  tell  Africa  nothinjg. 


FOR  GOD 

lim,  That  I Might  Come  Into  His 


She  is  sick,  so  she  rubs  a wooden  disc  first  on 
Benzure,  the  god  of  healing,  and  then  on  her 
own  feverish  forehead. 


And  the  little  fox  gods  in  their  bibs  are  a 
silent  display  of  Japanese  mothers’  prayers 
for  the  recovery  of  some  sick  little  child. 


All  over  India  you  will  find  him — the 
ascetic  who  craves  God  even  to  the  point 
of  suffering.  On  a stifling  hot  day  he  lies 
in  the  blazing  sun  unth  a heavy  stone  on 
his  stomach  and  a pot  of  fire  on  his  chest. 


Dare  we  leave  all  India  to  the  religious  keeping  of 
gross  priests  like  these? 


Come  All  Yel 


TO  a people  treated  Like  beasts  of 
burden,  down-trodden,  doomed  to 
perpetual  hunger,  grinding  poverty, 
and  endless  toil,  whose  lives  are  of  no 
possible  concern  to  anyone,  least  of  all 
to  the  gods  who  crave  rich  offerings  and 
continual  sacrifice,  the  Friend  of  the 
Friendless  makes  a peculiar  appeal.  The 
Carpenter’s  Son — yet  God!  It  is  very 
wonderful. 


All  the  way  up 
the  sleep  mountain 
he  carries  his  load 


hJiffht  years  a ricksha  coolie  and  varicose 
veins  are  causing  him  agony. 


Not  enough  rice  in  the  rice- 
bowl,  so  in  a time  of  famine 
she  must  sell  her  babies. 


That  Labor 


In  the  Darjeeling 
which  Kipling  made 
known  to  us,  she  is 
a daily  sight,  carry- 
ing baggage. 


BLT  the  children  of  these  destitute  converts  are 
a vastly  different  matter.  For  education  in 
our  Baptist  schools  has  wrought  its  miracle 
as  along  with  the  three  R’s  the  dignity  of  toil  has 
been  learned.  The  self-supporting  and  self-propo- 
gating  church  of  the  future  rests  on  the  shoulders  of 
these  keen,  bright  youngsters  who  fill  our  schools  to 
the  very  door  jambs. 


In  a pouring  rain  she  patiently  pushes  it  along.  After  all, 
the  days  are  each  alike  to  her,  rain  or  shine! 


The  Black  Question  Mark' 


Even  in  its  shape  Africa  seems  to  be  eternally 


ASKING 

‘‘  What  Shall  I do  to  be  Safe  ? 


These  primitive  people  are  only 
children  — afraid  in  the  dark, 
afraid  in  the  hght!  A hundred 
evils  seem  to  press  down  upon  them: 
the  mere  twitter  of  birds,  the  rusthng 
of  palm  leaves,  the  sparkhng  of  water 
— who  knows  what  unlucky  portent 
lurks  behind  each  natural  sight  and 
sound  ? What  murder  of  children  whose 
teeth  appear  in  inauspicious  irregu- 
larity? What  human  sacrifices  of  a 
life  for  a hfe? 

Each  httle  kraal  is  a world  to  itself: 
a few  dozendowhuts  of  thatched  straw 
and  palm  sticks  in  a clearing  of  the 
jungle.  While  dominating  all  the  super- 
stition and  ignorance  is  some  crafty 
witch-doctor  from  whose  degraded  lips 
comes  the  only  answer  to  their  eternal 
question  of  safety. 


“7/  the  light  that  is 
in  thee  be  darkness, 
how  great  is  that 
darkness  ” 


Bui  unless  the  people  of  the  Congo  are  to  become  mere  pawns  in  the  inevitable 
commercial  development  of  this  rich  area,  and  if  they  are  to  enjoy  their  share 


The  Gigantic  Black  Ear 


Strikingly  like  an  ear,  the  Africa  which  asks,  seems  to  be 


LISTENING 

Beliere  on  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  Thou  Shalt  be  Saved** 


In  the  blackness  of  the  map  you 
will  see  the  white  patch  of  the  Belgian 
Congo,  a district  one-fourth  the  size  of 
the  United  States  where  Baptists  are 
seeking  to  counteract  the  old  super- 
stitions with  the  simply  story  of  Jesus 
Christ.  Among  the  fifteen  million  inhabi- 
tants of  that  region  500,000  souls  are 
left  to  our  care,  yet  we  have  only  38 
missionaries  and  5 single  women  to 
conduct  36  churches,  three  hospitals 
and  315  schools.  Do  not  picture  these 
latter  as  fine  affairs,  in  many  cases  just 
groups  of  almost  naked  children  under 
a banana  tree  learning  their  A B C’s. 
But  from  the  brightest  scholars  new 
recruits  can  be  added  to  the  388 
Africans  now  serving  us  as  evangelists 
or  teachers.  Our  excellent  training 
school  at  Kimpese  prepares  these  men 
and  their  wives  in  branches  of  manual 
training  and  in  the  art  ot  preaching 
and  teaching  the  Bible. 


“Eyes  have  they  but  they 
see  not,  ears  have  they  but 
they  hear  not  — neither 
talk  they  with  their  mouth.” 


in  the  wealth  produced,  they  must  have  industrial  training.  One  of  the  items 
in  the  new  budget  is  $57,000  for  such  a school  at  Banza  Manteke. 


The  Backw 


Doing  things  the  old  way,  ploughing  with  the  same  old  plough,  fearing  the  same 
old  evil  spirits,  speaking  the  same  old  sixty-seven  different  languages,  with 
hteracy  almost  at  the  vanishing  point — this  is  Assam!  Yet  consider  that  Assam 
is  also  one  of  the  great  tea-producing  countries  of  the  world,  exporting  1,700,000  chests  of 
tea  in  1917,  and  you  will  catch  the  vision  of  winning  such  a people  to  Christ,  with  the 
immeasurable  difficulties  of  reducing  those  sixty-seven  languages  to  writing,  translating 
the  Bible  and  other  Christian  literature,  teaching  the  people  to  read,  and  establishing  an 
entire  system  of  education  that  will  produce  trained  leaders  for  the  176  Baptist  churches. 
Baptists  work  among  the  Assamese  in  the  Brahmaputra  valley,  among  the  immigrants 
from  India  in  the  tea  gardens;  among  the  Caros  and  Nagas  in  the  hills;  and  among  two 
races  in  the  independent  state  of  Manipur. 

Long  before  our  own  boys  reached  the  battlefields  of  France,  700  members  of  our  Caro 
and  Naga  churches  had  enlisted  in  the  British  army,  and  the  Caro  boys  in  France  organized 
a “traveling  church,”  and  sent  back  contributions  for  the  full  support  of  an  evangelist 
in  the  Caro  hills! 

You  will  see,  just  beyond,  the  proposed  campus  on  which  Baptists  are  already  trans- 
forming fifteen  races  of  poverty-stricken  people  into  self-supporting  educated  men  and 
women.  For  the  Jorhat  Christian  schools  have  250  pupils  housed  in  mud  huts  without 
furniture  or  adequate  equipment.  The  teaching  force  is  woefully  small.  Of  the  New 


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World  Movement  fund,  $150,000  will  make  the  missionary  dream  come  true  of  an  adequate 
school  for  interpreting  Christ  through  the  Bible,  lessons,  and  the  use  of  the  tools  in 
practical  work. 

Another  inmiediate  need  is  a Christian  hostel  for  boys  at  the  government  college  at 
Gauhati,  where  a university  pastor  is  now  at  work  influencing  hundreds  of  keen  young 
fellows  anxious  for  religious  guidance;  one  more  such  pastor  in  the  new  hostel  will  spread 
an  indisputably  Christian  atmosphere  through  the  college. 

As  for  the  girls,  Christianity  depends 
largely  on  them  as  the  home-makers 
and  the  teachers  of  the  future.  The 
Woman’s  Board  has  some  promising 
schools  and  hopes  to  erect  three  new 
plants  for  those  already  at  Impur, 

Tura  and  Gologhat. 


''We  just  hate  being  called  backward!" 


PAGODA] 


IF  IT  is  to  be  Buddha  or  Christ  for 
Burma,  then  the  Christian  burden  falls 
largely  on  Baptist  shoulders,  since  we 
have  186  missionaries  there  as  com- 
pared with  47  representatives  of 
all  other  boards.  Moreover,  we 
have  a peculiar  interest  in  the 
work  on  account  of  Adoniram  Jud- 
son,  the  first  American  missionary, 
who  in  1814  started  what  has 
now  become  our  most  successful 
mission. 

But  underneath  the  satisfaction 
lies  concern,  for  ten  million  of  the 
twelve  milUon  people  in  Burma 
belong  to  the  Burman  race,  and  we 
have  worked  mostly  with  the 
Karens  and  other  responsive  peo- 
ples. If  Christianity  is  to  supplant 


Buddhism,  the  Burmans  must  be  won. 
Buddhism  is  experiencing  a marked  revival 
just  now,  too,  organizing  Buddhist  Sunday 
schools  and  Young  Men’s  Bud- 
dhist Associations,  directly 
copying  Christians.  We  are 
planning  to  send  55  new  mis- 
sionary families  and  34  single 
women  missionaries  to  Bur- 
ma in  the  next  five  years, 
four  of  these  families  to  go  on 
to  Kengtung,  a new  “ Mace- 
donia” on  the  borders  of 
China,  where  people  respond 
to  the  gospel  en  masse. 

In  the  city  of  Bangoon  two 
interesting  new  developments 
are  planned : first,  an  institu- 
tional church,  at  a cost  of 


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i one-half  the  population  of  that  large  city;  and  second,  a new  plant  for  Judson  College 
j which  is  to  become  a part  of  the  new  Ikirma  University.  This  will  be  the  only  Christian 
j college  among  twelve  million  people,  one  attractive  feature  for  us  being  that  the  govern- 
j ment  has  secured  a beautiful  new  campus  outside  the  city  of  Rangoon  and  will  pay  half 
j the  cost  of  construction — the  entire  plant  to  cost  $500,000. 

Our  Burma  mission  is  built  upon  the  solid  foundation  of  a thorough  educational 
! system.  Under  the  direction  of  the  British  government  we  conduct  55  per  cent,  of  all 
! the  education  in  Burma,  which  means  schools  of  all  grades  from  the  kindergarten  through 
our  splendid  Judson  College  and  our  two  seminaries,  one  for  Burnians,  one  for  Karens. 
In  the  New'  World  Movement  program,  $35,000  is  specified  for  Moulmein  Trade  School, 
introducing  education  in  all  the  industrial  arts,  since  industrial  independence  will  vastly 
strengthen  the  position  of  the  Christians,  making  their  churches  self-supporting.  Pyin- 
mana  Agricultural  School  is  also  giving  this  practical  training. 

Baptist  women  are  doing  educational  work  for  girls  in  Burma  that  is  unrivalled  by 
any  similar  work  in  the  entire  Orient.  “ Kemendine”  and  “Mortan  Lane”  are  shining 
examples  of  what  such  schools  ought  to  be,  with  the  ever-present  exception  that  with 
increased  facilities  more  could  be  accomplished.  Forty-tliree  new  school  buildings,  to 
cost  $271,300,  will  put  Baptist  work  upon  an  adequate  basis. 

There  is  no  limit  to  our  responsibility  in  Burma,  save  the  limit  of  our  ability  to  meet  it! 


Old  Burma  sits  down  to  think  it  over! 


Young  Burma  stands  at  attention! 


A Brown  Study 


PAINT  India  brown — a sea  of  brown  bodies,  brown  sun-baked  plains,  brown  straw- 
thatched  huts,  brown  muddy  rivers ; splash  in  some  colored  turbans,  some  brilliant 
saris,  but  it  yet  remains  a brown  study  with  its  millions  of  hot  little  villages,  its 
curse  of  over  two  thousand  castes  which  dare  not  eat  together  or  live  together,  its  sixteen 
million  relentless  heathen  gods,  its  million  bigoted  sensual  priests,  its  remorseless  famines, 
its  unspeakable  poverty,  its  new  economic  hope. 

And  then  remember  that  out  of  315,000,000  people  Northern  Baptists  have  made 
themselves  absolutely  responsible  for  the  evangelization  of  6,000,000  of  them  in  South 
India,  among  whom  we  have  only  41  missionary  families  and  38  single  women  missionaries. 
Fewer  than  70,000  of  these  6,000,000  souls  are  yet  in  our  churches,  and  most  of  these  are 
the  outcastes  to  whose  despairing  souls  Christianity  has  been  a priceless  treasure.  This 
year,  as  an  entering  wedge  to  the  upper  classes  who  must  be  reached  before  India  becomes 
Christian,  we  plan  to  spend  $7,000  to  erect  a hostel  at  Madras  for  college  students  (of 
whom  there  are  more  than  4,000)  and  furnish  a university  pastor  to  devote  his  entire 
time  to  them. 

In  addition  to  this  work  in  South  India  a new  development  of  great  interest  to  Baptists 

is  taking  place  further  north  in  Bengal-Orissa,  a field 
where  we  have  12  missionary  families  and  nine  single 
women  missionaries.  Picture  to  yourself  a Pittsburgh 
in  India,  on  soil  that  eight  years  ago  was  occupied  by 
a few  mud^huts  but  is  now  covered  by  the  largest  steel 
industry  in  the  empire,  the  Tata  Iron  and  Steel  Com- 
pany at  Jamshedpur  (formerly  Sakchi),  where  60,000 
persons  of  all  races  and  creeds  and  colors  have  flocked, 
until  caste  barriers  have  had  to  break  down  as  high 
caste  and  low  caste  work  shoulder  to  shoulder.  Even 
the  religious  scruples  of  centuries  have  been  thrown  to 
the  winds  as  Hindu  workmen  eat  meat  to 
gain  strength  for  tomorrow’s  toil.  All  the 
worst  of  Western  vices  have  crept  in — and 
Baptists  are  the  only  denomination  re- 
sponsible for  this  entire  city  and  for  all 
the  Bengal-Orissa  field.  No  one  else  is 
in  the  territory.  To  develop  our  work  at 
Jamshedpur  nine  acres  of  land  have  been 
obtained  on  which  $100, ()()()  must  be  spent 
in  building  a school,  an  industrial  build- 
ing, two  hospital  dispensaries,  dormitories, 
a church  and  community  hall,  hostels, 
mission  residences  and  a playground.  If 
we  enter  now,  Christianity  may  dominate 
all  this  new  Sheflield  of  the  East. 


Another 
Brown  Study! 


It  Is  Written 


/ T IS  written!  " — thus  tlie  age-old  custom  accepts 
the  inevitable  scourges  of  famine,  hunger,  and 
grinding  poverty.  But  the  Christian  missionary 
is  ingeniously  >vriting  a new  program  with  spade 
and  hoe,  for  in  a land  where  the  people  are  largely 
agricultural  they  must  be  taught  how  to  secure 
the  largest  results  from  their  small  tracts  of  land, 
and  there  is  immediate  need  for  more  industrial 
training  in  all  our  schools.  Both  in  the  Kurnool 
and  the  Nellore  Boy’s  High  Schools  special  indus- 
trial departments  are  to  be  formed,  teaching  every 
practical  aspect  of  farming,  from  the  actual  making 
of  new  tools  to  the  actual  care  of  the  school  farms. 

“//  is  written!'" — and  all  Hindu  sects  agree  up- 
on two  points:  the  sanctity  of  the  cow  and  the  de- 
pravity of  women.  A Brahman  stops  reading  his 
sacred  books  when  a woman  comes  in  sight;  her  ear 
is  too  impure  to  hear  what  he — no  matter  how  vile 
— may  read.  Confined  in  zenanas  our  Bible  women 

lind  India’s  women,  idling  their  days  away,  or  toiling  endlessly,  according  to  their  status 
in  the  home:  99  per  cent,  of  them  unable  to  read  or  write. 

But  here  again  the  Christian  missionary  has  been  dauntless.  And  our  Baptist  schools 
for  girls  are  crowded  to  the  doors  in  every  mission  station.  “He”  is  beginning  to  demand 
an  educated  wife!  So  a new  day  dawns. 


She  draws  patterns  in  the  door-yard  to 
please  the  gods,  but  has  never  learned  even 
the  first  letter  of  the  alphabet. 


The  Rip  Van  Winkle  of  the  East 


Is  Suffering  from 

WAKING  SICKNESS 


Four  hundred  million  people  could  not  be  expected  to  wake  up  all  at  one  time! 
It  is  small  wonder  that  CMna  suffers  from  “waking  sickness,”  for  when  she  kicked 
over  old  props  it  was  only  to  discover  she  could  not  modify  a thousand-year-old 
civilization  by  erecting  and  operating  a republican  form  of  government  in  an  Asiatic 
setting — 95  per  cent,  illiteracy  was  one  obstruction.  Age-old  custom  was  another:  control- 
ling the  practise  of  medicine  and  perpetrating  exquisite  torture;  giving  terrifying  explana- 
tions of  simple  phenomena;  influencing  business  by  keeping  one  of  the  most  practical 
peoples  in  the  world  from  any  large  utilization  of  their  mineral  resources;  poisoning 
the  inner  life  by  creating  an  ethical  religion  dominated  for  the  ordinary  man  by  constant 
and  overwhelming  fear. 

Yet  for  all  these  400,000,000  vigorous,  industrious,  superstitious  and  illiterate  people, 
as  well  as  for  the  progressive  students  eager  for  some  new  thing,  Baptists  have  a staff  of 

only  145  missionaries  (including  wives) 
and  64  single  women  missionaries,  main- 
taining 176  churches  with  8,712  members. 

In  a land  of  gorgeous  heathen  temples 
Christianity  cannot  establish  itself  ade- 
quately in  some  unworthy  shack  hidden 
around  a corner. 

An  important  item  in  the  New  World 
Movement  program  includes  more 
and  better  church  plants  immedi- 
ately, also  two  institutional 
churches,  one  of  them  at  Swatow 
to  replace  the  building  recently 
demolished  by  earthquake. 

Through  social  service  in  the  com- 
munity what  chances  to  reach  the 
friendless!  What  opportunities 
for  leading  the  prosperous  ! 


/Is  she  sih  and  sells  soup  she  wonders  and  wonders 
about  the  Ihing  she  has  missed  in  life. 


) (>un(f  China  looks  hopefully  over  Us  shoulders  at  us: 
liaptists  .seem  to  hare  the  very  thing  that  grannie  rni.s.sed! 


Bridging  the  Chasm 

CllliNA  needs  leaders!  Trained  leaders!!  Christian  leaders!!!  With  70,000,000  of 
school  age  and  schools  for  only  7,000,000,  it  is  the  J^aptist  task  to  help  bridge  the 
chasm  with  our  272  schools  and  our  9,208  pupils.  While  most  of  these  schools  are 
of  primary  grade,  they  serve  as  feeders  to  our  academies  for  boys  and  girls,  where  future 
Baptist  leaders  are  now  in  the  making.  For  instance,  in  South  China  there  is  Swatow 
Academy,  one  of  two  high  schools  in  a center  of  six  million  people,  and  there  is  Raying 
Academy  which  under  the  most  crowded  and  unsanitary  conditions  has  marvelously 
grown,  squeezing  over  200  pupils  into  ramshackle  buildings  where  less  than  100  should 
be  housed.  W e rejoice  that  a splendid  site  has  been  bought  on  a small  hill  outside  the 
city  where  the  school  will  have  room  to  grow — the  j)resent  need  is  for  something  to  put 
on  the  hill!  In  Hangchow,  W ayland  Academy  is  strategically  located,  the  only  Christian 
high  school  in  a city  of  750,000.  Aingpo  Baptist  Academy  is  equally  well-placed  in  Ningpo. 
Every  one  of  these  schools,  as  well  as  those  unnamed,  is  packed  to  the  doors — unreached 
opportunities  clamor  for  consideration  on  every  hand! 

It  is  from  these  scattered  academies  that  line  intelligent  picked  men  go  to  Shanghai 
Baptist  College,  magnificently  situated  on  the  banks  of  the  Aangste  River,  where  the 
ships  of  the  world  go  by.  Picture  the  315  students  now  in  the  Middle  School,  the  College, 
the  Theological  Seminary;  consider  how  sincere  the  Christian  atmosphere  must  be  when 
only  five  graduates  have  not  been  Christians;  follow  them  out  into  the  world  and  note  that 
at  least  two-thirds  of  all  our  chapels  in  East  and  Central  China  are  manned  by  Shanghai 
graduates.  Remember  also  that  Evanston  Hall,  the  last  new  dormitory,  was  filled  to 
overflowing  the  day  it  was  opened  in  1919,  and  sixty  men  had  to  be  turned  away! 

Surely  China  is  getting  her  leaders,  for  this  same  new  day  is  dawning  out  in  West 
China,  where  at  Chengtu  Baptists  unite  with  four  other  denominations  in  maintaining 
the  West  China  Union  University. 


Evanston  Hall — generously  contributed  by 
the  members  of  one  church 


From  a Bound  Past  to  Freedom 


WHILE  Chinese  men  are  pa- 
tiently trundling  their  “hly- 
footed”  womankind  in  wheel- 
barrows in  the  old  approved  fashion,  a new 
race  of  women  is  slowly  emerging  from  our 
girls’  day  schools  and  boarding  schools — 
even  from  our  kindergartens ! The  trouble 
of  it  is  that  these  schools  are  so  over- 
crowded that  girl  after  girl  must  be  turned 
back  to  her  heathen  village  and  a life  as 
painfully  bound  as  her  own  two  “golden 
lilies.”  Because  of  this  situation  the  pro- 
gram of  the  New  World  Movement  in- 
cludes five  new  high  schools  for  girls,  with 
adequate  buildings  and  equipment,  and  for 
the  higher  education  of  women  cooperation 
with  other  denominations  will  be  sought, 
as  in  Ginling  College  at  Nanking,  some  of 
whose  girls  are  here  shown  under  a campus 
pergola. 

An  entirely  unique  feature  of  women's 
work  is  our  Mothercraft  School  in  Huchov , 
the  first  of  its  kind  in  the  Orient  offering 
practical  courses  in  home  economics  to 
married  women,  who  need  not  only  this  but 
also  the  three  R’s  and  Bible  study.  Their 
children  attend  also,  and  the  play-room 
and  the  diminutive  dining-room  are  a 
delight  and  an  education  in  themselves. 


“Now  that 
we've  got  him 
whal  will  you 
do  with  him?' 


How  long 
must  she  wait, 
honor  able 
Baptists? 


speed  Away! 


WITH  deliglitfiilly  uiicoii- 
scioiis  irony  we  liave  been 
tunefully  admonishing  our 

missionaries  in  our  hymns  to  “Speed  away!  Speed  away!”  “0  Zion,  haste!”  And  then  we 
have  required  them  to  lumber  tediously  along  at  two  miles  an  hour  in  bullock  carts,  wasting 
time  and  energy  and  opportunities  galore! 

“ The  Kirifi's  Business  Requires  Haste” 

which  is  the  reason  75  automobiles  a{){)ear  in  the  foreign  budget  for  the  next  five  years:  10 
for  Bengal-Orissa.  25  for  South  India,  10  for  Assam,  25  for  Burma  and  5 for  the  Philippines. 

There  are  thousands  of  miles  of  finest  government  roads  in  British  India  and  the 
Philippines,  and  one  of  our  doctors  who  used  to  spend  eighteen  hours  jolting  from  Ongole 
to  Aellore  can  nov  make  the  run  in  less  than  three  hours!  Think  of  what  he  can  do  in 
those  hours  which  an  auto  saved  him!  A missionary  secretary  now  makes  a tour  of  inspec- 
tion in  the  Philippines  in  live  Irours  Avhich  a few  years  ago  took  three  days. 


If  one  missionary  with  an 
automobile  equals  three 
missionaries  without  one, 
it  is  sound  policy  to  fur- 
nish the  automobile. 
Autos  are  cheaper  than 
missionaries. 


O ZION,  HASTE! 


As  Goes  Japan,  So  Goes  the  Orient 


Young  Japan,  from  the  ages  of  six  to  twelve,  is  already 
in  school,  for  the  government  boasts  enough  schools  for 
them  all,  but  falls  far  short  of  higher  schools.  Our  Bap- 
tist responsibility,  therefore,  is  confined  to  Christian  high  schools 
for  boys  and  girls,  and  to  kindergartens,  through  which  we 
can  reach  hundreds  of  homes.  For  Japanese  parents  take  such 
an  adoring  interest  in  all  that  their  quaint  slant-eyed  children 
do  that  we  plan  to  have  a modern  kindergarten  in  connection 
with  each  new  and  permanent  church  structure,  thus  linking 
the  homes  to  the  churches  through  the  children. 

In  addition  to  these  kindergartens,  the  Woman’s  Board  has 
four  high  schools  for  girls,  a school  for  training  Bible  women, 
and  a kindergarten  training  school  at  Tokyo  which  is  to  be  en- 
larged at  a cost  of  $5,000.  Baptist  women  also  cooperate 
with  other  boards  in  the  Woman’s  Cln'istian  College  of  Japan 
at  Tokyo,  and  are  eager  to  provide  their  share  for  permanent 
buildings  needed  in  this  single  Christian  institution  of  higher 
learning  for  girls. 


Although  we  already  own  two  dormitories  for 
boys  at  Waseda  University,  more  dormitories  and 
a guild  hall  are  an  immediate  need  if  our  mission- 
ary is  to  respond  to  the  increasing  number  of  keen 
young  students  eager  for  his  counsel. 

Mabie  Memorial  School  at  Yokohama  is  our 
new  project,  vigorously  backed  by  the  governor 
of  the  province  and  endorsed  by  the  mayor  of  that 
great  city,  where  East  meets  West  very  literally. 
Due  to  the  influence  of  these  high  officials  we  have 
a really  magnificent  site  on  a lull  overlooking  the 
roofs  of  Yokohama  and  the  harbor  beyond.  The 
first  section  of  the  building  is  under  construction— 
the  rest  can  grow  as  fast  as  we  make  it! 


As  grandfather  so  grand- 
daughter, unless ? 


Chimneys  and  Cherries 


A street  in  Tokyo  and  a slum  home  where  the  postcard  is  “made  in  Japan" 


INCONGIIUOUS?  Factory  chinmeys  and  clocks,  street-cars  and  slums,  straw  hats 
and  pantaloons  in  the  “Land  of  Jinrickishas  and  Kimonas?”  Perhaps,  but  down 
underneath  the  veneer  of  this  Japanese  process  of  “adopt,  adapt,  adept”  lies  a problem 
they  daily  try  to  solve.  For  a country  that  had  200  factories  in  1881  and  now  has  25,000 
is  necessarily  undergoing  a social  revolution.  Behind  the  slogan  “made  in  Japan”  are 
congested  communities  so  appalling  and  wreckage  of  human  life  so  startling  that  the 
Christian  church  has  an  imperative  call  to  awaken  the  practical  social  virtues  which  must  go 
hand-in-hand  with  all  real  progress.  A spirit- 
ual cross-roads  of  the  utmost  importance,  for 
if  Christianity  can  captivate  Japan,  Japan- 
ese Christianity  can  captivate  the  Orient. 

Baptists  are  beginning  to  see  that 
churches  hidden  away  in  some  rented  shop 
can  never  win  the  respect  of  a nation  of  born 
artists!  Yet  only  a few  hundred  Japanese 
Baptists  can  say:  “1  was  glad  when  they 

said  unto  me:  “Let  us  go  into  the  house  of 
the  Lord.  ” Our  line  institutional  church  at 
Tokyo  needs  to  be  duplicated  in  other  cities, 
and  our  ])rogram  of  $90,000  means  15  sub- 
stantial church  buildings  in  the  other  impor- 
tant mission  stations. 


America’s  Experime 


During  her  occupancy  of  the  Philippine  Islands,  Spain  sent  priests  and  tax- 
collectors,  but  after  several  centuries  of  her  regime  the  Fihpinos  were  iUiterate, 
superstitious,  and  ignorant,  their  islands  swept  with  cholera  and  insurrection, 
themselves  lazy  and  indifferent  to  progress.  And  their  church  was  a church  with  no  Bible. 

Since  1898  the  United  States  has  been  working  out  the  greatest  experiment  in  the 
preparation  of  a people  for  self-government  that  has  ever  been  tried.  Her  first  step  was 
sending  experts  in  administration,  engineering  and  education,  and  in  twelve  years  she 

has  surpassed  all  expectations  in  cleaning  up  the  islands,  in  estab- 
lishing a splendid  public  school  system  and  in  training  Filipinos 
to  hold  important  positions  in  the  islands.  But  the  schools  are 
schools  with  no  Bible. 

So  on  Christians  falls  the  responsibility  of  giving  the  Bible  and 
Christian  interpretations  of  democracy,  supplementing  government 

schools — but  training  Clu'istian 
leaders  and  Clmistianizing  the 
dignity  of  work. 

Largest  of  all  our  work  is 
the  Jaro  Industrial  School,  where 
300  boys  learn  how  to  make 
everything  from  Rats  to  horse- 
shoes, with  a thorough  course 
in  Bible  study  that  runs  from 
the  fourth  grade  through  high 
school,  including  some  courses 
in  homiletics  and  pastoral  duties 
which  will  fit  the  exact  needs 
of  the  young  men  in  their  future 
work.  There  is  a farm  of  65 
acres  where  the  boys  raise  sugar 
cane,  rice,  corn  and  vegetables. 
The  buildings  themselves  have 
all  been  make-shifts,  starting  with 
a burnl-out  sugar  warehouse  re- 
constructed into  a dormitory, 
class  rooms  and  shop.  Tempo- 
rary wooden  walls  have  been 
added  from  time  to  time,  and 
one  concrete  building,  but  all 
inadequate  to  the  splendid  cur- 
riculum planned  and  the  large 
number  of  sludeuts.  Wo  lane 


int  in  Democracy 

placed  $205,000  in  tlie  new  building  plans  in  order  to  make  this  popular  school  the 
beacon  light  on  its  island. 

The  \\  Oman’s  Hoard  is  justly  proud  not  only  of  its  Capiz  Home  School,  where  orphans 
and  other  dependent  children  receive  a really  remarkable  training,  but  also  of  its  Bible 
Teachers'  Training  School  at  Iloilo. 

Government  high  schools  are  centrally  located  in  cities  and  to  these  many  hundreds 
of  village  boys  and  girls  come  every  year  with  no  proper  places  to  lodge.  Baptists  have 
met  this  need  by  erecting  dormitories  at  Iloilo,  Capiz  and  Bacolod — this  latter  house  has 
beds  for  41,  but  the  students  were  so  eager  to  come  that  last  year  eleven  others  brought 
their  own  cots!  This  particular  dormitory  needs  entire  rebuilding  and  new  ones  must 
also  be  erected,  for  where  in  the  whole  island  have  we  an  easier  or  more  economical  way 
of  multiplying  our  influence.^ 

The  American  government  is  achieving  wonderful  success  in  its  efforts  to  make  the 
Islands  safe  for  democracy — Will  American  Christians  have  equal  success  in  making  that 
democracy  safe  for  the  Islands  ? 


Touched  with  Every  Fe;! 


WHEN  John  sent  to  Jesus  to  ask  if  He  were  indeed 
the  Son  of  God,  His  reply  was:  “Go  tell  John  the 
things  that  ye  do  see  and  hear — the  lame  walk, 
the  blind  see,  lepers  are  cleansed,  and  the  poor  have  the  gospel 
preached  unto  them.” 

If  this  seemed  a program  divine  enough  for  the  Great 
Physician,  how  equally  divine  it  is  for  the  medical  mis- 
sionary who  follows  in  His  steps! 

In  lands  where  90  out  of  every 
hundred  persons  suffer  to  the  end 
without  medical  care,  where 
remedies  consist  in  supersti- 
tious incantations  in,  noisy  demon- 
strations to  scare  away  the 
evil  cause  of  illness,  in  excruciat- 
ing torture  such  as  ground  glass  in 
the  eyes,  poison  in  open  wounds, 
red  pepper  blown  up  the  nostrils, 
vigorous  shakings,  deep  burnings 
with  irons,  sharp  puncturings  with 
needles — to  sufferers  such  as  these 
the  Christian’s  pill  bottle  is  a key 
that  unlocks  tlie.  door  to  every 
home. 


From  the  lips  of  this  devoted  old 
ChineseBiblewoman  comewords 
of  life  from  the  precious  Book 
she  carries.  All  up  and  down 
the  wards  of  our  hospital  sick 
eyes  follow  her  wistfully. 


A native  ambulance  from 
an  outlying  village 


8,241  physicians  in 
New  York  City 


^^The  Strong  Ought  to  Beai  || 


cling  of  Our  Infirmity 


Hie  suHeriiig  on  the  liattlelields  of  Europe  shocked  us  into  an  impulsive  response  to  the 
Ked  Cross  to  save  those  of  our  own  flesh  and  blood;  yet  in  the  Orient,  year  in  and  year  out, 
there  is  more  outrageous  sutfering  on  the  pari  of  little  children,  more  agony  of  girl 
mothers,  more  callous  heartlessness  to  sick  mankind  than  in  a hundred  Belgiums  or  on  ten 


“Borne  of  four  “ over  75 
miles,  in  fhis  ambulance 
of  cornstalks  and  poles 


dozen  battlefields  of  France. 

\nd  to  all  these  millions  upon  millions  of  sufferers 
Bajitists  have  so  far  sent  only  60  medical  missionaries, 
veritable  heroes  who  conduct  our  26  hosjiilals  and  our 
16  dispensaries,  having  trained  every  one  of  our  152 
native  nurses,  treating  over  100,000  patients  a year. 
\\  hat  praise  is  high  enough,  what  response  too  gen- 
erous ? 

In  Africa  we  have  no  hos])ilals  worthy  of  the  name, 
mere  mud  huts  and  tin-roofed  shanties,  sad  handicaps 
to  the  six  well-trained  physicians  eager  to  treat  their 
patients  })roperly  and  to  train  up  native  nurses.  Four 
new  hospitals  with  an  American  trained  nurse  for  each 
is  in  our  new  {)rograni;  funds  for  the  hospitals  are 
in  hand,  but  nurses  and  doctors  are  lacking.  Look 
at  the  witch  doctor  to  see  why  the  day  must  be 
hastened. 


From  the  lips  of  an  African 
witch-doctor  come  fiendish  yells, 
u'ild  scaring  away  of  evil  spirits, 
frenzied  fury — ivith  small  comfort 
to  the  patient. 


he  Infirmities  of  the  Weak’^ 


1 ,0 1 1 Medical  Missionaries 
in  Non-Christian  Lands 


“He  Took  My  Sickness 


II  looks  calm  enough  lo  the  left,  yet  the  girl  having  her  head  bound  had  her  scalp  tern  off  by  a slocking  machine 
al  Swalow.  The  patieni  being  massaged  has  lockjaw,  the  next  girl  is  almost  blind,  the  next  one  has  large 
palmar  abscesses.  Nothing  but  a woman's  hospital  could  serve  these  four — and  this  is  but  one  fragment  of 
time  during  a busy  day. 


Five  hospitals  in  the  hill  villages  and  one  hospital  for  women  at  Mouhnein  are  hardly 
enough  for  Burma.  Additional  equipment  is  needed  and  will  be  provided  in  the  coming 
campaign,  also  a training  school  for  nurses  in  connection  with  the  Mouhnein  hospital. 
India,  that  land  of  untold  suffering,  has  seven  Baptist  hospitals  and  eleven  dispensaries. 
A splendid  great  hospital  is  now  being  built  at  Ongole  in  memory  of  Dr.  John  E.  Clough. 
The  Woman’s  Board  has  two  large  hospitals  for  women,  one  at  Nellore,  the  other  at  Pahnur. 
This  latter  needs  enlarging,  also  the  woman’s  hospital  at  Hanumakonda;  while  two  new 
hospitals  for  women  with  adequate  staffs,  and  reinforcements  for  the  other  hospitals  are 
part  of  the  Baptist  program.  Child  marriages,  ignorance  of  the  simplest  facts  of  hygiene, 
extreme  poverty  and  continual  hunger  make  India  an  especially  appealing  field  for  medical 
care,  and  the  fact  that  no  man  may  doctor  a woman  makes  the  call  for  women  physicians 
doubly  urgent.  The  training  of  native  doctors  is  the  hope  of  the  future,  and  Baptist 
women  are  proud  of  one  girl,  now  a full-fledged  M.D. 


Chinese  Ambulance 


Into  His  Own  Heart” 


I 


Ellen  Mitchel  Memorial 
Hospital,  Moulmein 


Native  quacks  have  made  Cliina  a land  where  the  medical 
missionary  is  a friend  indeed.  But  our  ten  hospitals  and  even 
the  seven  new  ones  we  liope  to  build  will  hardly  constitute  a 
beginning  in  touching  the  overwhelming  need.  Chinese 
nurses  and  doctors  are  being  trained,  and  to  this  end  our 
\\  Oman’s  Board  is  hoping  to  cooperate  generously  in  the  Union 
Medical  College  for  Women  at  Shanghai;  while  in  West  China 
there  is  a medical  department  for  men  in  the  West  China 
Union  University.  There  is  the  beginning  of  a medical 
system  in  each  of  our  tliree  missions  in  East,  South  and 
West  China.  But  what  are  two  hospitals  in  Swatow 
among  six  million  people?  Or  how  about  our  two  small 
hospitals  in  W est  China  where  a few  doctors  struggle  alone 
in  the  midst  of  ten  million  people,  with  their  wards  so  full 
that  often  two  patients  must  lie  in  one  cot — one  with  his  head 
at  the  foot  of  the  cot,  the  other  where  a head  ought  to  be? 
Our  answer  is  $299,500! 

In  the  Philippines  Baptist  .Medical  work  is  limited  to  two 
stations,  a hospital  all  our  own  at  Capiz  and  a large  Union 
Hospital  at  Iloilo  shared  with  the  Presbyterians. 


Our  firs  I 
M.  D. 
in  India  ^ 


Barman  Aurses 
Ellen  Mitchell  Memorial 
Hospilal,  Moulmein. 


Baptists 


They  are  coming  back!  Coming  back  to  little  homes  that  have  become  pitiful 
heaps  of  broken  junk — the  ceilings  are  in  the  cellar  and  the  roof  is  all  mixed  up 
with  the  floor — what  can  we  do  to  help?  For  in  many  of  these  French  towns, 
like  Lens  there  were  little  Baptist  churches,  now  hopelessly  wrecked,  and  in  a peculiar 
way  such  towns  are  the  places  to  which  we  wish  to  turn  our  attention. 

Already  a foyer  (hut)  has  been  opened  at  Lens,  where  social  rooms,  well-heated  and 
lighted,  are  furnishing  some  degree  of  comfort  to  the  returning  refugees,  places  where  they 
can  gather  during  the  weekdays  and  where  they  can  worship  on  Sunday.  We  have  also 
opened  several  small  dormitories  for  the  people  who  need  shelter  while  engaged  in  the 
heart-breaking  process  of  remaking  a home  out  of  nothing  but  holes  and  broken  bricks. 
Our  budget  carries  an  appropriation  of  $300,000  for  this  work  of  reconstructing  demolished 


in  Europe 


cliurc'hes  and  pastors’  lioines,  assislinjj  these  pastors  who  have  borne  such  untold  burdens, 
and  printing  some  much-needed  evangelical  Cdiristian  literature. 

The  war  has  opened  new  fields  in  Eastern  and  Southern  Eurofje,  for  now  that  autocratic 
domination  has  been  broken  millions  of  {)eoj)le  who  have  been  denied  the  privilege  of 
religious  freedom  will  be  waiting  to  respond  to  the  message  of  a liberating  gospel.  There 
are  many  Baptists  scattered  over  the  great  districts  of  Poland  and  the  new  Czecho- 
slovak republic,  and  at  the  ])resent  lime  the  Foreign  Mission  Society  has  its  own  European 
commissioner  making  a survey  of  the  situation.  No  estimate  for  funds  can  be  made  as  yet. 
But  we  remember  that  the  fires  of  Christianity  blazed  forth  first  on  European  soil.  The 
atmosphere  was  decidedly  unfriendly.  But  in  the  free  air  of  America  it  has  prospered. 
Having  inherited,  we  stand  ready  to  recognize  the  obligation  of  that  inheritance. 


Blazing  the  Trail' 


They  still  strap  them 
up  to  look  just  the 
way  papooses  did  in 
those  early  days  when  the 
first  American  Baptist, 
Roger  Williams,  started  the 
first  missionary  work  for 
the  Indians.  And  in  spite 
of  all  the  intervening  years 


Tomahawks  and  Happy  Huntin 
Grounds  are  a thing  of  the  past  anion 
these  original  Americans,  'I'hey  are 
herded  336,000  in  number  on  govern- 
ment reservations,  only  75,000  of  them 
able  to  read  or  write. 

Yet  the  work  of  our  26  Baptist 


Here  is  one  of  the  llof>i  Indian  churches 
Imill  hy  I he  Indians  Ihernselres.  Pari  of 
Ihe  money  for  il  came  lo  Ihe  U oman  s 
Hoard  from  Hahy  Hands  in  our  churches 
all  over  Ihe  coutdry.  Churches  like  Ihese, 
Ihough  painfully  simple  and  unadorned, 
are  (jokpel  liffhthouses. 


'Id  nq 


of  the  Jesus -Road 


this  little  fellow  is  likely 
to  worship  just  such  a fjod 
as  this;  for  amoii^  the  llopis 
of  Arizona  (Second  Mesa) 
there  are  over  200  idols 
worshipped  with  ceremo- 
nies as  heathenish  as  you 
would  find  the  world 
around. 


missionaries  among  15  tribes  has  many 
signs  of  promise.  For  instance,  it  was 
the  Kiowa  Baptist  Indians  who  wanted 
to  be  “like  a light  on  the  mountaiif’ 
to  the  heathen  Hopi,  and  started  the 
Hopi  mission  calhng  it  “God’s  Light 
upon  the  ]\Iountain.” 


Larnonikeon,  a Chrisiian 
Hopi  who  speaks  the  Navajo 
language  is  lame,  unable  to 
walk  much,  but  the  Chris- 
tians have  solved  his  problem 
by  making  him  their  own 
missionary  to  the  Navajo 
tribe,  giving  him  $5  a month. 
Armed  with  a picture  roll 
and  a Bible  he  makes  weekly 
trips  to  the  nearby  Navajos. 


The  Young  and  the  Old 


She  faces  the  future  with  curiosity. 
Coming  from  a heathen  village  where 
graven  images  and  debauchery  and 
indolence  are  everyday  sights,  she  thinks 
queer  little  Indian  thoughts  about 
cameras  and  churches  and  Christians! 
There  is  something  beseeching  in  her 
whole  attitude:  “ What  are  you  going 

to  do  about  me,  anyhow?"  she  seems  to 
challenge  us. 


She  faces  the  future  with  certainty.  You 
will  see  the  repose  in  her  whole  attitude 
as  if  she  were  quoting  the  Psalmist: 
“ The  lines  have  fallen  unto  me  in 
pleasant  places.”  For  the  dear  old 
saint,  after  years  of  regular  attendance 
at  the  far-distant  chapel  grew  much  too 
feeble  for  the  long  walk,  so  the  Indian 
Christians  fixed  her  a little  home  beside 
the  church,  where  they  support  her  and 
supply  all  her  wants. 


They  hunger  for  God  in  America,  too! 


Thousands  of  these  human  destinies  lie  in  our  Baptist  keeping,  and  it  is  for  tliat 
very  reason  that  Bacone  College  in  Oklahoma  deserves  our  special  attention. 
For  it  is  the  highest  Indian  school  in  the  country,  and  exerts  a wide  influence  among 
many  tribes.  It  is  literally  overflowing  with  students,  250  in  attendance  this  year,  and 
100  refused  admission  from  lack  of  space.  The  education  is  adapted  to  the  needs  of  the 
students,  beginning  from  the  first  grade  through  the  sophomore  year  in  college,  including 
courses  in  domestic  and  industrial  arts,  and  the  teaching  of  girls  to  be  teachers  to  their 
own  people.  Yet  the  buildings  are  old  and  almost  uninhabitable,  and  there  is  an  imperative 
need  for  several  new  buildings  if  the  present  and  future  scholars  arc  to  be  turned  into  the 
kind  of  trained  leaders  the  Indians  sadly  need. 


Thinking  Black 

IF  IT  were  only  three  little  negroes  “I’m  coming!  “Fin  coming!’’  we  mif^lit 

alTord  to  smile,  and  forjjet.  But  it  becomes  increasin^jly  serious  when  it  is  more  than 
three  times  a million  little  black  boys  and  fjirls,  and  older  ones  as  well,  who  are  of 
school  age  at  the  present  time,  but  unlikely  to  receive  an  education  unless  we  erect 
dormitories  for  ten  of  lifteen  schools,  build  new  school  buildings  for  seven  of  them,  overhaul 
and  repair  many  old  structures,  increase  the  number  of  teachers,  adding  materially  to 
their  salaries.  For  imagine  the  head  of  a college  department  receiving  less  than  a Pullman 
porter! 


One  Old  of  every  ten  persons  in  the  United  States  is  a neijro 

Almost  every  northbound  train  has  been  bringing  more  and  yet  more  negroes  from 
the  South  to  our  northern  cities,  until  everyone  is  beginning  to  realize  that  if  we  are  to 
receive  thousands  of  these  people  at  our  doors  it  concerns  us  very  deeply  whether  or  not 
they  have  had  an  education  before  they  left  home. 


Topsy  - Turvy 


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Praclicing  on  Topsy! 

Teacher  Iraining  department  at  Spelnian. 


Topsy  “just  growed”!  But 
Baptists  are  seeing  the  re- 
sults of  a guiding  hand  in 
the  process  when  thirteen  of  our 
Baptist  schools  show  the  following 
conspicuous  fruitage : 


1,535  graduates  are  teachers 


741 

570 

151 

117 

116 

73 

30 

6 


preachers 

physicians 

fanners 

pharmacists 

lawyers 

merchants 

nurses 

foreign 

missionaries 


3,339  classified  graduates 


1,190  unclassified  graduates,  many 
of  whom  live  on  the  farms. 


The  names  of  these  schools  are  familiar  to  you:  Spelman,  Hartsliorn,  Mather,  \ irginia 
Union,  Morehouse,  Bishop,  Benedict,  Shaw,  and  seven  others,  with  a total  enrolment  ol 
over  5,000.  And  more  are  eager  to  come  if  we  only  realize  in  time  that 
schools  like  these  are  the  greatest  asset  the  nation  has  in  meeting  its 
serious  race  problem. 


The  hope  of  Bishop 
College! 


The  Newest  Americans 

They  liave  come  I’roin  the  ends  of  the  earth,  ba^  and  bafj^a^e!  Strangers  in  a 
strange  land,  lonely,  restless,  ea^er  for  gain,  but  cheated  and  ballled  on  every  hand. 
They  have  mixed  old-world  customs  and  antagonisms  with  conditions  as  they  find 
them  until  it  would  sometimes  seem  that  the  World  at  the  Cross  Roads  typifies  any  one 
of  our  big  cities  like  New  York,  with  its  gigantic  industrial  and  Americanization  crises 
to  be  met  hourly. 

Something  has  got  to  make  over  these  newest  Americans  from  the  inside  out!  The 
state  can  only  do  it  superlicially  from  the  outside  in,  through  housing  laws,  compulsory 
schooling  and  industrial  betterment;  but  the  agency  with  the  most  to  contribute  is  the 
Christian  church — for  it  is  only  as  the  mind  of  Christ  becomes  the  mind  of  all  Americans, 
new  and  old,  that  the  problem  of  America  will  be  solved. 


A House  by  the  Side  of  the  Road 


''When  a fellow  needs  a friend!” 


Giovanni  seems  to  be  resenting  the  idea 
that  Baptist  women  planned  the  Judson 
Neighborhood  House  to  get  him  cleaned  up — 
but  twenty  minutes  later  on  the  roof  garden  there 
won’t  be  a happier  child  in  New  York  City.  And 
his  mother,  from  gratitude  that  he  has  been  safe 
and  happy  all  day  while  she  works,  gets  a daily 
vision  of  the  Christian  heart  pulsing  in  this  strange 
America. 

“Christ  in  Every  Home”  is  a motto  becoming 
more  and  more  actual  through  such  Clu'istian  cen- 
ters in  congested  city  districts  and  in  mining 
sections  of  the  country,  where  the  children  throng 
our  day  nurseries,  our  kindergartens,  our  sewing 
or  manual  training  classes,  clubs,  Sunday  schools, 
branch  hbraries,  etc.,  while  the  mothers  gather 
curiously  for  their  English,  sewing,  cooking  or 
Bible  classes,  and  even  the  fathers  stroll  in  to  the 
reading-room  or  enrol  in  citizenship  or  Bible  classes. 
Christian  neighborliness  solves  hundreds  of 
Americanization  difficulties;  fifty  more  centers 
are  in  the  New  World  Movement  program  at  an 
estimated  cost  of  $800,000. 


Polish  people  at  dedication  of  Brooks  House, 
East  Hammond,  Indiana. 


"Safe  from  the  maddening  crowd” 


The  map  indicates  the  location  of  oiir  home  mission  stations  and  churches.  We  have 
tlu’ee  Hungarian  churches  in  Cdeveland  and  three  Bohemian  cliurches  in  Chicago. 
Every  Sunday  tliere  are  2,000  Bohemian  children  in  our  Cliicago  Sunday  school — 
and  yet  we  have  been  told  that  these  people  had  gone  over  to  atheism.  The  Poles  in  Chicago 
are  also  responding  in  an  unprecedented  way;  and  Baptists  are  the  only  ones  who  have 
any  appreciable  success  with  the  Rumanians.  The  Jugo-Slavs,  too,  are  showing  a marked 
interest.  There  is  only  one  IF!  Trained  leaders,  again! 

Training  schools  for  Germans,  Swedes  and  Italians  are  well  established,  but  our  Home 
Board  feels  that  this  year  its  outstanding  con- 
tribution to  the  Clu-istianization  of  America 
should  be  a Polyglot  School  for  training 
teachers  and  preachers;  such  a school,  teach- 
ing from  six  to  ten  languages,  would  do  away 
with  the  scattered  and  struggling  Slovak, 

Polish,  Hungarian  and  Russian  schools  now 
in  existence,  wliich  need  continual  aid,  and 
by  being  placed  near  the  foreign  populations 
would  give  the  students  a spiritual  clinic 
for  practice  work. 


Students  from  the  Bohemian-Slovak  School  in  Chicago 


The  Orient  ir 


He  in  Uiinking  il  over  with  ul- 
inosi  deliberalion,  and  has  de- 
cided he  never  ivill  be  a ‘ 'peril,” 
bat  that  perhaps  you  and  I may 
be  if  ive  forget  him  so  easily 
and  recall  him  so  uneasily! 


“Are  we  Ihe  yellow  peril?”  they  seem  lo  ask  Nor  is  he  the  yellow  peril, 
us  anxiously!  Bui  of  course  they  aren't,  for  either!  Linked  with  his  delighl- 
bolh  Shigaro  and  Miehiko  are  coming  regu-  ful  mischief  is  a new  element  of 
larly  with  Iheir  mother  to  every  session  of  the  fair  play  learned  on  the  roof 
morning  English  School  held  at  our  Japanese  garden  of  the  Chinese  Baptist 
Home  at  Seattle,  under  Ihe  Woman  s Board.  Mission  at  San  Francisco. 


The  Oriental  differs  from  evei  y other  new-comer  to  our  shores  in  that  the  state 
says  he  is  not  welcome.  Yet  there  are  80,000  Chinese  and  100,000  Japanese  in 
the  United  States  living  in  congested  colonies,  utterly  excluded  from  American  ideals, 
with  Buddhist  temples  and  Chinese  joss  houses  sprinkled  everywhere.  To  travel  over- 
seas and  preach  Jesus  Christ  in  China  and  Japan  is  a mockery,  unless  we  Christiani/e 

those  at  our  very  doors,  making  sui(‘ 
that  the  18,000  of  them  who  return  to 
Asia  each  year  go  hack  missionaries! 


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"And  a little  child  shall  lead  them” 


the  Occident 


WE  CA>s'T  lielp  but  be  glad  that  the  llashliglit  startled  the  audience  into  screw- 
ing around  in  their  seats,  for  the  quaint  a{)peal  of  their  astonished  faces  rivals 
our  interest  in  the  Chinese  players  who  have  just  been  dramatizing  the  story 
of  Bethlehem  on  the  platform  of  our  Chinese  Baptist  IVIission  in  San  Francisco. 

Who  knows  what  gifts  of  gold  and  frankincense  and  myrrh  these  little  Wise  Men 
(and  Women!)  of  the  East  may 
some  day  have  to  offer  to  the 
King  of  Rings  if  we  continue 
packing  their  small  heads  full  of 
(^diristian  stories  and  Christian 
ideals.  Their  pai'ents  are  made; 
their  ideals  are  formed;  but 
through  their  adoring  pride  in 
the  new  accomplishments  of 
their  children  they,  too,  see  a 
vision.  Even  the  very  American 
hair-ribbons  testify  to  a desire 
to  imitate  what  appeals  to  them ! 


Both  outside  and  inside  it  is 
attractive — this  San  Fran- 
cisco mission  for  theChinese. 


And  the  Islands? 


There  are  no  more  beautiful  places 
than  the  islands  of  Cuba  and  Porto 
Rico,  and  they  are  more  responsive 
to  the  gospel  than  any  other  so-called 
Catholic  country. 

In  Porto  Rico  our  leading  school  is  the 
Grace  Conaway  Institute  for  training 
preachers  and  teachers — the  beautiful 
buildings  near  the  government  university. 
Each  year  a dozen  young  men  prepare  for 
the  pastorate,  and  young  women  are 
trained  in  a new  building  the  Woman’s 
Board  has  recently  completed. 

Two  community  centers  are  greatly 
needed  at  San  Juan  and  Ponce,  and 
parsonages  tor  23  of  our  churches.  Even 
preachers  need  a home! 

In  Cuba  our  principal  institution  is 
the  International  College  of  El  Chris- 
to, known  all  over  the  island  as  the 
best  evangelical  school.  Beautifully 
situated  among  the  mountains  it  has 
a fine  campus  with  splendid  modern 
buildings,  crowded  to  overflowing. 


Is  this  overcrowding? 

Accommodations  planned  for  80  schol- 
ars are  filled  by  307  students,  and  still 
they  apply  and  must  be  turned  away. 
When  we  do  away  with  the  makeshifts, 
this  will  be  the  most  influential  center  in 
all  Cuba,  for  which  $500,000  is  required. 


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Wide  Opportunities  Where 
America  Is  Narrow 


In  the  capital  of  El  Salvador  our  present  church 
building  has  twice  been  wrecked  by  earthquake.  It 
was  an  old  residence  made  into  a chapel  and  the 
congregation  now  meets  with  fear  and  trembling 
lest  another  shake  bring  the  roof  down  on  their 
heads. 


The  Woman  s Board  bought  this  attractive  school  in 
Managua,  Nicaragua,  and  already  people  in  other 
places  like  Masaya  and  Leon  are  clamoring  for 
schools  for  their  girls,  too. 


Three  states  of  Central  America  have  been  assigned  exclusively  to  Northern  Bap- 
tists: El  Salvador,  Nicaragua  and  Honduras.  Only  this  year  has  Honduras  been 
supplied  with  a school  or  a church;  in  the  other  two  states  our  work  is  inadequate. 
These  three  republics  have  a combined  area  as  large  as  Colorado,  and  a population  of 
2,500,000.  A Christian  training  school  at  San  Salvador  is  one  of  the  most  prominent 
needs,  also  hospitals  and  new  women 
teachers,  if  the  wide  opportunities  are 
to  be  met — in  time! 


-4s  a contrast  to  the  tumble-down  church,  see  this 
happy  group  of  believers  before  our  mission  at 
Izalco,  El  Salvador. 


Ready?  Of  course  they're  ready.  There 
never  was  a school  in  this  town  of  Hon- 
duras, and  the  boys  are  already  lining  up. 


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A Far  Country  Near  Home-fl 

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He  is  by  way  of  being  a hero!  For  Ihe  neal 
adobe  structure  at  the  right  is  our  Baptist 
parsonage  at  Linares  where  he  had  a perfect 
right  to  live,  of  course!  But — there  was  no 
school  in  thal  whole  town  of  20,000  people! 


So  he  began  coveting  his  own  two  rooms 
and  his  own  concrete  floors  for  a school; 
so  presto!  he  moved  his  family  out  into  a 
thatch-roofed  room  ivith  dirt  floor — and 
the  brand  new  Baptist  school  moved  in. 


MEXICO 

For  years  back  tliis  far  country  near  home  lias  been 

On  the  edge  of  bloodshed.  In  the  middle  of  bloodshed. 

Ju.sl  out  of  bloodshed.” 


Behold  the  nurses!  If  you  could  .sw  inside 
Ihe  hospital  you  might  notice  a problem  ihe 
W Oman's  Board  is  facing:  cots  for  the  needy 
but  not  enough  niir.ses;  patients  needing 
nourishment,  but  not  enough  funds  for  food. 


Yet  in  spite  of  political  disorder 
new  and  genuine  intellectual  awaken- 
ing is  taking  place.  Everybody  of  all 
ranks  wants  an  education,  which  the 
government  cannot  supply.  This 
gives  us  a rare  opportunity  in  our 
little  day  schools,  in  our  new  Theo- 
logical Seminary  at  Saltillo  and  in 
our  nurses’  training  school  connected 
with  the  Baptist  hospital  at  Puebla. 


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■Mexico  Within  Our  Borders 


IN  EVER-INCREASING  numbers  Mexicans  are  coming  into  the  United  States, 
and  the  Woman’s  Board  is  already  providing  ten  missionaries  for  work  with  them  in 
Arizona,  California,  Colorado,  Kansas  and  Missouri.  These  people,  used  lo  the 
splendor  of  Mexican  cathedrals,  look  with 
contempt  on  our  crude  mission  chapels,  which 
must  be  patterned  on  more  attractive  lines 
like  this  simple  but  inviting  new  mission  a I 
San  Pedro,  California. 

The  General  Board  is  doing  an  interesting 
work  among  the  Mexicans  on  the  western 
ranch  of  the  American  Beet  Sugar  Company, 
where  our  own  missionary,  a converted  priest 
from  Mexico,  is  laboring  effectively. 


A Paradise  to  be  Regained 

SAPPHIRE  skies,  giant  palm  trees,  tropical  flowers,  soft-colored  adobe  houses,  even 
the  squalor  seeming  picturesque  when  dark-eyed  senoritas  balance  graceful  water 
jars  on  their  heads-^this  is  what  the  casual  sight-seer  observes  in 

Mexico 
Porto  Rico 
Cuba 

Central  America 

But  the  Baptist  sees  deeper;  behind  the  romance  he  sees  utter  ignorance  and  a 
stark  superstition  fostered  through  centuries  in  churches  full  of  crosses  but  no  living 
Christ. 

He  also  sees  illegitimacy  in  miserable  homes  where  children  lead  a happy-go-lucky 
existence  from  the  cradle  to  the  grave ; illiterate,  with  no  knowledge  of  medicine  or  sanita- 
tion, no  conception  of  salvation. 

It  is  in  Latin-American  countries  like  these  that  Baptists  are  taking  a definite  share 
in  the  Christian  task. 


Natives  of  Santa  Ana  where  the  largest  Baptist 
Church  is  in  the  Republic  of  El  Salvador 


Fishers  of  Men 


IT  \\  AS  a fisherman  niendin{3:  his  nets  whom  our  Lord 
reeofrnized  as  one  of  tfie  livirifi  stones  in  His  church  on 
earth.  It  is  among  fishermen  on  a ma(fe  island  in  Los 
Angeles  llarhor  that  Baptists  have  the  only  missions  at 
Last  San  Pedro  and  Moneta  for  the  hundreds  of  Japanese 
who  go  every  day  to  the  fishing  grounds.  Our  Japanese 
missionary  is  doing  remarkable  work  among  these  fisher 
folk. 


Shanghai  or  New  York? 


Where  cross  the  crowded  ways  of  life, 

Where  sound  the  cries  of  race  and  strife; 
Above  the  noise  of  selfish  strife 

We  hear  Thy  voice,  0 Son  of  Man! 


In  haunts  of  wretchedness  and  need. 

On  shadowed  thresholds  dark  with  fears. 
From  paths  where  lurk  the  lures  of  greed. 
We  catch  the  vision  of  Thy  tears. 


0 AI  aster,  from  the  mountain  side 

Make  haste  to  heal  these  hearts  of  pain; 

Among  these  restless  throngs  abide. 

And  tread  the  city’s  streets  again. 

— F.  Mason  North 


The  Call  of  the  Frontier 


There  is  still  a frontier  just 
as  in  the  pioneer  days  of  our 
great-grandfathers.  The  Depart- 
ment of  the  Interior  estimates 
there  are  still  372,000,000  acres  of 
agricultural  land  in  this  country 
not  taken  up,  and  timber  lands  not 
yet  logged  off.  It  is  to  them  that 
our  colporter-missionary  comes 
with  Bibles  and  Christian  liter- 
ature. 


SUM  I']  of  Ihc'in  must  sit  on 
conn t('is when  the  Baptist 
Clmreh  at  Maneos.  C.olorado 
( tli('  galc'wav  of  M('sa  \ erde 
Park),  worslii})s  in  a little 
empty  ston'  once  a month, 
wIh'ii  th('  col|)ort(T  comes  to 
town ! 


They  couldn’t  get  over  it.  The 
smile  of  joy  went  way  down, 
deeper  than  anything  had  gone  in 
all  their  lonely  frontier  years.  For 
here  was  a man  who  could  "pray-like- 
the-deacon-back-East,”  and  read  like 
the  good  old  pastor,  and  pray  like 
mother  used  to  do!  It  was  an 
awakening. 


The  Hut  at  the  End  of  the 

Trail 


IIS  DOORS  and  outdoors  it  is  a big  generous 
hut  with  “WELCOME”  written  in  every 
beam — the  kind  of  a place  that  Baptists  can  be 
proud  of  opening  for  lumberjacks  who  have 
been  logging  all  day  in  the  great  forests  of 
our  Northwest,  and  who  need  a place  for 
wholesome  recreation. 

This  new  community  center  at  Powers, 
Oregon,  is  on  the  same  idea  as  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
huts — the  great  logs  that  support  the  roof,  the 
huge  fireplace,  the  rugs,  the  cozy  corners,  the 
magazines  and  books  and  music,  all  combine 
to  tell  the  newcomer  that  Christianity  has 
something  man-size  to  offer  a fellow ! We 
need  a hundred  more  such  huts  among  the 
logging  camps  of  Washington  and  Oregon. 


From  the  Atlan 

SIGNPOSTS  IN  THE  COUNTRY 


The  call  of  the  country  is  more  than  the  lure  of  green  meadows  and  babbhng  brooks! 
It  is  a summons  to  make  wholesome  and  broad  the  life  of  fifty-three  and  seven- 
tenths  per  cent,  of  the  population  of  the  United  States  who  live  away  from  the  rush 
of  cities,  so  that  those  who  provide  food  and  raw  materials  for  the  nation  may  share 
in  the  religious  life  of  other  American  Cliristians. 

Rural  churches  have  long  been  the  fountains  of  our  life.  We  cannot  afford  to  let  the 
springs  dry  up. 

There  are  thirty-six  State  Conventions  within  the  territory  of  the  Northern  Baptist 
Convention,  which  are  the  natural  units  of  our  denominational  organizations.  These 
State  Conventions  are  primarily  home  missionary  organizations,  and  tliis  whole  home 
mission  program  which  we  are  setting  forth  is  theirs.  Wliile  their  tasks  vary  with  their 
locations,  rural  churches  are  one  of  the  outstanding  problems  in  each  state.  The  rural 
conditions  also  vary,  all  the  way  from  sleepy  Cape  Cod  fishing  villages  to  vicious  western 
logging  camps  and  saw-mill  hamlets,  from  foreign  communities  in  desolate  coal  and  coke 
regions  to  lonely  homesteads  on  prairies  or  in  irrigation  tracts.  In  each  such  community 
our  Baptist  church  must  be  made  a vital  factor — churching  the  unchurched  is  one  problem, 
rechurching  is  another.  For  in  these  growing  rural  communities,  where  each  church  is 
to  be  as  a signpost  pointing  toward  God,  what  reverence  or  what  inspiration  if  the  church 
of  Jesus  Christ  is  a mere  wood-shed  plus  a front  door,  or  even  a decent  house,  utterly 
unadorned  ? 

Besides  maintaining  small  rural  churches,  the  State  Conventions  also  foster  new 
churches  in  growing  cities,  providing  for  the  large  number  of  immigrants  who  are  crowding 


tic  to  the  Pacific 


MILESTONES  IN  THE  CITY 


into  these  towns.  French-Canadians,  Italians,  Russians  and  Poles  are  daily  elbowing 
many  a staid  New  Englander  from  his  old  home;  Negroes  are  coming  north  into  Ohio, 
Indiana,  New  York,  Connecticut,  and  Mexicans  into  Colorado,  Idaho,  Arizona,  California. 
Orientals  are  a problem.  East  and  W est.  All  these  people,  living  in  disreputable,  unsanitary, 
overcrowded  alleys  off  our  main  avenues,  eking  out  a hazardous  existence  in  sweatshops, 
factories  and  mines  bring  before  liaptists  the  bewildering  extremes  of  modern  civilization. 

Through  the  State  Conventions,  Baptists  are  aiming  to  place  attractive  missions  and 
neighborly  Christian  centers  like  milestones  across  the  length  and  breadth  of  our  land, 
to  mark  the  onward  progress  of  these  new  Americans.  So  that  families  crowded  in  tene- 
ments, three  or  four  to  a room,  may  have  a common  gathering-place  where  the  Friend  of 
the  Friendless  may  interpret  life  in  a new  aspect. 

Is  it  significant  that  the  Bible  opens  in  a 
garden  and  closes  in  a city?  Baptists  think  so, 
and  for  this  State  Convention  work  of  church- 
ing rural  communities  and  making  the  modern 
city  a City  of  God,  they  plan  to  spend  about 
$11,761,419  in  the  next  five  years. 


Where  Cross  the  Crov 


Where  cross  the  crowded  ways  of  life. 
Where  sound  the  cries  of  race  and  clan, 
Above  the  noise  of  selfish  strife 

We  hear  Thy  Voice,  0 Son  of  Man . 


Windows  ! numberless  windows— 
that  is  the  first  impression  one 
gains  from  the  picture  across  the 
foot  of  these  pages.  And  behind  every 
window — people!  People  enough  in  one 
building  to  populate  a good-sized  town; 

people  from  all  walks  of  hfe;  from  all  races;  nowhere  in  the  world  are  there  such  chal- 
lenging cross-roads  as  our  cities  daily  present  to  American  Baptists. 

“Christianity  could  only  take  its  place  in  universal  history  after  it  had  estabhshed  a 
firm  footing  in  the  city  that  ruled  the  world.  Its  whole  future  development  depended 
upon  the  form  it  took  in  Rome.” 

The  future  of  Christianity  in  America  depends  to  a large  degree  upon  the  form  it 
takes  in  our  great  cities,  for  both  the  trend  of  population  and  the  balance  of  power  are 
rapidly  passing  to  the  cities.  Already  there  are  seventy  cities  in  the  United  States  which 
have  a population  of  100,000  or  over.  According  to  the  census  of  1910,  the  total  population 
of  all  the  Mountain  States  and  all  the  Pacific  Coast  States,  making  up  almost  half  the 
territory  of  the  United  States  was  6,556,000.  At  the  same  time  the  combined  population  of 
New  York  and  Chicago  was  6,949,000.  And  today  the  population  of  New  York  City  alone 
is  over  6,000,000.  This  reveals  something  of  the  stupendous  task  of  Cliristianity  in 
America,  for  every  city  has  a similar  problem.  What  will  it  avail  if  the  Christian  church 
gains  the  whole  frontier  but  loses  its  great  cities? 


Rich  and  the  Poor  have  met  together 


of  Life 

It  is  easy  to  see  how  the  critical  relij^ious 
situation  in  America  arose:  in  the  moving 
out  of  the  older  citizens  to  new  sections  and 
to  the  suburbs,  leaving  the  down-town 
cliurches  with  decreased  incomes  to  meet 
increased  expenses.  Many  churches  have 
retreated  from  these  former  locations  to  follow'  their  membership.  Yet  there  are  more 
people  down-town  today  than  there  ever  were.  For  the  immigrants  have  moved  in,  with 
their  alien  ideals  and  customs,  many  of  them  holding  the  church  either  in  contempt  or  under 
suspicion.  The  city  problem  is,  therefore,  how  the  Christian  church  can  remain  in  its  original 
home  when  its  constituency  has  fled  and  minister  to  foreigners  surging  past  its  doors. 

There  are  only  twelve  standard  Baptist  city  mission  societies  which  finance  their 
missionary  work  on  an  independent  basis:  New  York  Brooklyn,  Philadelphia,  Buffalo, 
Pittsburgh,  Detroit,  Cleveland,  Minneapolis,  Des  Moines,  St.  Louis  and  Los  Angeles. 
Even  these  cities,  each  with  a paid  superintendent  devoting  his  entire  time  to  the  work, 
are  laboring  under  a fearful  burden  of  indifference  and  meager  incomes.  Other  cities, 
less  well  organized,  bespeak  the  imperative  need  for  an  immediate  program  of  generous 
dimensions,  courageously  adopted  and  vigorously  pushed.  Where  opportunity  is  greatest, 
the  church  has  been  weakest,  but  the  time  for  temporizing  is  past! 

An  aim  of  the  New  World  Movement  is  to  make  careful  surveys  of  all  our  larger 
cities  to  discover  exactly  what  the  situation  demands. 


wded  Ways 

In  haunts  of  wretchedness  and  need 
On  shadowed  thresholds  dark  with  fears. 
From  paths  where  hide  the  lures  of  greed 
We  catch  the  vision  of  Thy  tears. 


H.  C.  of  L.  and  the  Schools 


The  High  Cost  of  Living  has  struck  the 
schools  and  colleges  hard.  Coal  and 
groceries  and  everything  they  have  to  pur- 
chase have  gone  almost  out  of  reach  of  their 
former  incomes.  Then  there  are  the  teachers!! 
They  have  heard  of  the  H.  C.  L.,  too.  Carpenters 
earning  $2,400  a year  are  sending  their  boys  to 
be  educated  by  teachers  who  are  paid  $1,000. 
That  will  not  last  long.  There  will  be  no  teachers. 
One  man  has  recently  given  $50,000,000  to  raise 
the  salary  of  teachers — but  there  are  many  Baptist 
schools  that  will  not  profit  by  that.  We  must 
look  out  for  that. 

Then,  too,  there  is  not  a Baptist  school 
that  is  not  crowded  to  the  doors — ^just  over- 
flowing— so  many  boys  and  girls  want  an  educa- 
tion. We  shall  have  to  put  up  new  buildings, 
dormitories  and  laboratories — or  send  these 
children  back  home.  Which  do  Baptist  parents 
prefer?  So  there  are  thirty  million  dollars  in  the 
Budget — twelve  million  for  the  new  buildings 
and  eighteen  million  to  provide  a better  educa- 
tion. That  will  go  a long  way  but  it  will  not  do 
it  all. 

If  we  raise  the  Hundred  Million  our  children  s 
children  will  rise  up  to  call  us  blessed. 

The  Board  of  Education  carries  on  many 
educational  activities.  None  is  more  important 
than  the  work  of  missionary  education.  To 
raise  up  a generation  of  people  thoroughly 
informed  about  all  the  Kingdom  work  is  no 
small  task.  It  is  a gigantic  task.  But  it  will 
solve  our  missionary  problem.  If  our  children 
are  better  informed  than  we  are  we  shall 
not  need  great  drives  in  their 
day.  Because  they  know  they 
will  give.  Information  and 
education  are  the  hope  of  the 
Kingdom.  A thorough  system 
of  missionary  education  in  every 
chunh  will  solve  the  whole 
missionary  problem. 


for  Our  Own.  Children 


WE  ARE  warned  that  the  man  who 
carest  not  for  his  own  is  worse  than 
an  infidel.  While  we  are  raising 
millions  of  dollars  for  the  education  of  the 
children  of  the  Indians  and  Negroes,  the  Bur- 
mans,  the  Chinese  and  the  Africans,  we  do  not 
propose  to  neglect  our  own  children.  Not  by 
any  means.  The  One  Hundred  Million  Dollar 
Budget  carries  $30,000,000  for  the  development 
of  the  schools  in  which  our  own  children  are  to 
be  educated.  That  is  a generous  proportion  of 
the  Hundred  Million,  but  it  is  not  a dollar  too 
much. 

There  are  68  institutions  of  various  kinds  in 
which  our  children  are  being  trained — theological 
seminaries,  training  schools,  colleges,  junior 
colleges,  academies.  The  list  includes  Brown, 
our  oldest  school,  founded  in  1764  and  estab- 
lished in  Rhode  Island,  because  that  was  the 
only  colony  in  which  Baptists  could  secure  a 
charter,  and  Redlands,  our  youngest  school 
located  among  the  orange  groves  of  Cahfornia, 
and  a long  chain  of  schools  founded  all  down 
during  the  intervening  years,  as  section  after 
section  of  the  country  was  opened  up.  The 
list  includes  institutions  of  widely  varying  grades 
of  equipment  from  the  school  of  one  small  build- 
ing to  the  university  with  forty  buildings. 

A Baptist  boy  or  girl  can  secure  a complete 
education  and  as  fine  as  can  be  secured  in  the 
world — from  the  ninth  grade  until  he  is  pre- 
pared for  any  profession  in  fife  — without 
going  off  the  campus  of  a Baptist  school. 

Why  should  not  Baptists  patronize  Baptist 
schools.^  Our  schools  are  among 
the  best.  If  this  campaign  suc- 
ceeds many  of  our  institutions 
will  secure  equipment  and  en- 
dowment which  will  put  them 
in  the  front  rank — that  is  the 
only  place  for  a Baptist  school 
to  stand. 


Is  the  College  a Safe  Place? 


Is  THE  college  a safe  place  to  send  a boy  or  girl?  That  depends  somewhat  on  the 
college  and  somewhat  on  the  boy  or  girl.  For  the  average  young  men  and  women 
the  Christian  college  furnishes  the  best  environment  in  America  for  healthy  develop- 
ment and  growth. 

There  is  a religious  problem  in  our  great  state  universities  which,  by  reason  of  tlie 
Baptist  protest,  are  forbidden  to  teach  religion.  The  influence  of  the  university  therefore 
needs  to  be  supplemented  by  the  influence  of  the  church.  To  meet  this  need  the  Baptist 
Board  of  Education  has  placed  its  own  representatives  at  many  of  the  great  university 
centers.  These  representatives  are 
ministers  who  are  the  pastors  of  the 
Baptist  students,  acting  as  their 
friends  and  advisors,  introducing 
them  to  the  Baptist  churches,  and 
into  Baptist  homes,  teaching  them 
in  their  Bible  classes,  and  rendering 
them  a thousand  services.  By  the 
influence  of  these  university  pastors 
the  religious  life  of  hundreds  of  Bap- 
tist students  has  been  conserved  and 
developed. 

If  you  had  a boy  or  girl  in  one  of 
those  universities  you  would  be  glad 
that  the  board  of  education  had  a min- 
ister here  to  greet  them  as  a friend. 


Who  Will  Go  For  Us? 


TIIKOUGII  tlie  New  World 
Moveineiil,  Northern  Baptists 
expect  to  raise  this  spring  One 
Hundred  Million  Dollars  to  send  the 
gospel  around  the  world.  But  the 
gospel  does  not  travel  like  the  breath 
of  spring.  It  is  not  a zephyr  that  is 
wafted  now  here,  now  there.  It  is  not 
a disembodied  spirit.  It  travels  only 
as  it  goes  in  the  hearts  of  men  and 
women. 

It  waited  many  centuries  to  go  to 
India  until  William  Carey  was  ready 
to  carry  it.  It  waited  nearly  three- 
quarters  of  a century  more  until 
David  Livingstone  was  ready  to  take 
it  to  the  heart  of  Africa.  It  is  waiting  now  to  go  out  onto  the  prairies  of  Wyoming  and  up 
into  the  mountains  of  Assam.  Who  will  carry  it? 

We  may  raise  our  millions  but  we  cannot  send  the  gospel  until  our  young  men  and 
women  are  ready  to  go.  The  money  will  be  useless  without  the  messengers. 

The  New  World  Movement,  therefore,  lays  the  challenge  of  the  world  upon  the  hearts 
of  hundreds  of  our  young  men  and  women  in  school  and  college.  We  need  at  once 
400  new  recruits  for  service  overseas  alone,  and  hundreds  of  others  for  the  service  at  home. 
“And  I heard  a voice  saying:  ‘Who  shall  I send  and  who  will  go  for  us?’  Then  said  I, 
‘Here  am  I,  send  me.’’’ 

‘*ril  go  where  you  want  me  to  go,  dear  Lord, 

Over  land  and  plain  and  sea.’’ 


Six  Million  Americans 


Have  No 


Cartmen  and  teamsters  need 
Bibles. 


Lumberjacks  in  the  great  North- 
west without  a Bible. 


Wayside  travelers  appreciate  a j “ 

J his  group  of  children  of  23  na- 
tionalities have  parents  who  own 
Bibles  in  their  own  tongues. 


Prairie  farmers  need  Bibles. 


Bailroad  men  of  all  national  Hies 
should  have  Bibles. 


Children,  big  and  little,  on  the  fron- 
tiers, welcome,  the  col  porter. 


Printer’s  Ink  and  the  Gospel 


OUR  Publication  Society  has  one  of  tlie  most  important  roles  in  the  denomination: 
that  of  aiding:  to  advance  religjious  education.  When  we  look  at  our  Sunday 
schools  and  realize  that  our  children  receive  only  twenty  or  thirty  minutes’  instruc- 
tion one  day  in  seven  for  learning  the  difficult  lessons  of  Christian  principles  we  conclude  that 
nothing  is  too  good  in  the  line  of  lesson  helps  and  periodicals  to  train  teachers  as  efficiently 
as  a corps  of  volunteer  teachers  are  willing  to  be  trained!  In  addition  to  this,  specialists 
to  tour  the  country,  organizers  of  Sunday  schools,  and  Bible  workers  are  an  indispensible 
[)art  of  our  new  program.  The  printing  of  Bibles  and  fifty  new  books  a year,  in  addition 
to  the  above-mentioned  lesson  helps  and  periodicals,  taxes  our  printing  presses  to  the  limit, 
and  makes  advance  work  on  an  enlarged  scale  rather  difficult. 

One  special  need  the  society  would  like  to  fill  this  year  at  a cost  of  $34,000  is: 


For  a new  Bible  in  Russian $12,000 

For  a New  Testament  in  Russian 4,000 

For  a Pilgrim’s  Progress  in  Russian 4,000 

For  a Bible  in  Rumanian 12,000 

For  portions  of  the  Bible  in  various  languages 2,000 


Daily  Vacation  Bible  School  at  Coeur  d'  Alene,  Idaho 


Idle  Hands 


and  Lady  Fingers 


They  are  having  a thoroughly  good  time,  as  you  can  see 
for  yourself!  They  never  knew  quite  what  to  do  with 
themselves  until  the  Publication  Society  passed  on  the 
idea  of  Daily  Vacation  Bible  Schools  in  1916;  since  then  the 
schools  have  proved  so  popular  that  more  than  half  the 
Idle  Hands!  states  have  adopted  the  plan.  As  the  name  indicates  it  is  a 

Daily — Monday  to  Friday. 

Vacation — For  five  or  six  weeks  during  the  long  public  school  vacation. 

Bible — The  Bible  instruction  being  basic  and  comprising  more  Biblical  teaching 
than  an  ordinary  year’s  work  in  Sunday  school. 

School — Under  capable  teachers  with  a definite  program. 

The  program  is  planned  along  six  lines: 
Worship,  Bible  Instruction,  Manual  Traiu- 
ing,  Music,  Play  and  Patriotism. 

The  idea  is  adapted  to  city,  town, 
or  country,  to  slums  or  good  residen- 
tial  districts.  All  it  needs  is  ingenu- 


ity on  the  jiart  of  the  teachers 
in  charge.  Multiplied  experi- 
ments justify  the  annual 
expenditure  of  $13,000  for 
maintaining  this  popular 
constructive  work. 


Baptist  Sky  Pilots 

Baptists  have  three  gospel  cruisers  whicli  penetrate  where  railroads  and  even 
highways  have  never  reached.  The  Robert  G.  Seymour,  here  sliown,  goes  up  and 
down  Puget  Sound  where  the  missionary  visits  families  who  have  no  other  possible 
way  of  hearing  the  gospel.  In  Puget  Sound  there  are  two  counties  composed  entirely  of 
islands  where  people  can  be  reached  only  by  boat.  Another  of  the  gospel  cruisers  ministers 
to  a territory  of  250  miles  of  river,  with  the  richest  farm  land  on  the  Pacific  coast.  No  land 
is  for  sale  at  any  price.  At  several  points  along  the  river  are  settlements  of  Chinese,  running 
from  tliree  hundred  in  number  in  Courtland  to  several  thousand  in  Walnut  Grove,  where 
is  located  the  second  largest  Chinatown  in  the  country.  No  word  of  the  gospel  has  ever 
been  preached  to  these  strangers  among  us  who  know  not  our  God.  Great  colonies  of 
Italians  and  Portuguese  are  found,  and  large  numbers  from  India  and  Japan.  To  all  of 
these  alike  the  gospel  message  is  absolutely  unknown.  Here  is  one  of  the  greatest  home 
and  foreign  missionary  opportunities  in  the  world.  But  what  seems  worse  than  all,  though 
in  reality  it  is  no  worse,  here  is  community  after  community  filled  with  our  own  people 
where  no  religious  service  of  any  description  has  ever  been  held.  The  people  are  ready 
to  come.  Alany  are  ready  to  accept.  “How  shall  they  hear  without  a preacher?  And 
how  shall  one  preach  except  he  be  sent?” 


The  Full  Measure  of  Devotion 

SURELY  those  servants 
of  Jesus  Christ  who 
have  borne  the  burden 
of  the  Baptist  cause  to 
the  end  of  their  working 
days  can  say  with  Paul: 

”I  have  fought  the  good 
fight,  I have  finished  the 

course,  I have  kept  the  faith;  from  henceforth  there  is  laid  up  for  me ,” 

ah  yes,  a crown  of  life  in  heaven  of  course;  and  something  in  the  coffers  of 
the  Ministers’  and  Missionaries’  Benefit  Fund  too?  Yes,  unless  Northern 
Baptists  appreciate  this  life-long  devotion  less  warmly  than  other  denomina- 
tions whose  permanent  funds  for  such  distribution  are:  Congregationalists, 
$5,000,000;  Presbyterians,  $7,500,000;  Episcopalians,  $8,500,000;  Metho- 
dists,  $12,000,000.  Our  new  program  calls  for  an  increase  of  the  present 
$4,000,000  endowment  to  $10,000,000  within  the  next  five  years,  so  that 

it  may  be  our  joy  to  tide 
over  those  who  are  tem- 
porarily in  need  of  finan- 
cial help  and  to  pay  to 
every  aged  minister  a 
pension  as  a continuing 
compensation  for  the  life- 
long service  which  he  has 
rendered.  Let  us  do  it 
in  the  name  of  Him  whose 
last  earthly  request  was  to 
a friend  : ” Behold  thy 

mother.” 

“E’en  down  to  old  age  all  my  people  shall  prove 
My  sovereign,  eternal,  unchangeable  love, 

And  when  hoary  hairs  shall  their  temples  adorn 
Like  lambs  they  shall  still  in  My  bosom  be  borne."' 


The  Minister  at  the  Cross-Roads 


OF  OLD  it  lialli  been  written,  “The 
laborer  is  worthy  of  his  hire.”  The 
modern  world  believes  it  for  it  pays 
the  carpenter  eight  dollars  per  day,  the 
plumber  ten  dollars,  the  snow  shoveler  one 
dollar  per  hour,  the  farmer  two  dollars  per 
bushel  for  his  wheat  and  seventy-five  cents  a 
dozen  for  his  eggs;  and  the  nninister  $1.86 
per  day. 


$1.86  per  day 


He  teaches  out  children,  bap- 
tises our  boys  and  girls,  marries 
our  young  people,  visits  our  aged, 
comforts  our  sorrowing,  buries  our  dead, 
inspires  us  with  our  ideals,  advises  us  in 
our  straits,  cheers  us  in  our  disappoint- 
ments, rejoices  with  us  in  our  fortunes.  . . . 
For  $683  per  year! 

When  we  raise  the  Hundred  Million 
why  not  raise  our  ministers’  salaries  too.^ 
We  can  do  both. 


$8.00  per  day 


One  Moment,  Please! 

This  is  another  page  without  pictures,  yet  what  kaleidoscope  could  offer  such  varied 
scenes  as  the  figures  in  these  three  columns!  For  all  up  and  down  America  the 
fathers  and  the  children  will  throw  back  their  shoulders  with  renewed  courage 
shouting:  “To  the  job!  At  last  we  can  do  it  adequately!  At  last!  ” 


SCHOOLS  AND  COLLEGES 


Name  of  School 

Location 

.Additional  Requirements  before  .April  1,  19)24 

Theological  Seminaries 

Endoumient 

Equipment 

Berkeley 

Berkeley,  Cal. 

$420,000 

$145,000 

Chicago 

Chicago,  III. 

250,000 

Crozer 

Chester,  Pa. 

100,000 

Kansas  City 

Kansas  City,  Kansas 

250,000 

100,000 

Newton 

New'ton  Center,  Mass. 

650,000 

150,000 

Rochester 

Rochester,  N.  Y. 

400,000 

100,000 

Training  Schools 

Chicago 

Chicago,  111. 

300,000 

75,000 

Philadelphia 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 

300,000 

75,000 

Norwegian 

Chicago,  111. 

50,000 

Swedish 

St.  Paul,  Minn. 

250,000 

125,000 

Danish 

Des  Moines,  la.  * 

25,500 

Colleges 

Bates 

Lewiston,  Me. 

500,000 

Brown 

Providence,  R.  I. 

500,000 

Bucknell 

Lewisburg,  Pa. 

1,000,000 

500,000 

Carleton 

Northfield,  Minn. 

500,000 

500,000 

Colby 

Waterville,  Me. 

700,000 

150,000 

Colgate 

Hamilton,  N.  Y. 

1,000,000 

450,000 

Denison 

Granville,  Ohio 

1,800,000 

1,700,000 

Franklin 

Franklin,  Ind. 

600,000 

650,000 

Grand  Island 

Grand  Island,  Neb. 

200,000 

185,000 

Hillsdale 

Hillsdale,  Mich. 

500,000 

245,000 

Kalamazoo 

Kalamazoo,  Mich. 

500,000 

500,000 

McMinnville 

McMinnville,  Ore. 

300,000 

400,000 

Ottawa 

Ottawa,  Kans. 

500,000 

350,000 

Redlands 

Redlands,  Cal. 

650,000 

492,500 

Shnrtleff 

•Alton,  111. 

500,000 

225,000 

Sioux  Falls 

Sioux  Falls,  S D. 

325,000 

200,000 

Union 

Des  Moines,  Iowa 

1,000,000 

785,000 

William  Jewell 

Liberty,  Mo. 

500,000 

Junior  Colleges 

Broaddus 

Philippi,  West  Va. 

300,000 

200,000 

Colorado 

Denver,  Col. 

300,000 

220,000 

Frances  Shimer 

Mt.  Carroll,  111. 

150,000 

182,000 

Hardin 

Mexico,  Mo. 

100,000 

Keuka  & Cook 

New  York  State 

1,000,000 

250,000 

Rio  Grande 

Rio  Grande,  Ohio 

80,000 

75,000 

Stephens 

Columbia,  Mo. 

350,000 

Academies 

Alderson 

.Alderson,  West  Va. 

100,000 

75,000 

Coburn 

Waterville,  Me. 

215,000 

100,000 

Colby 

New  London,  N.  H. 

300,000 

175,000 

Hebron 

Hebron,  Me. 

100,000 

Higgins 

Charleston,  Me. 

100,000 

Keystone 

Factoryville,  Pa. 

100,000 

90,000 

Maine  Central 

Pittsfield,  Me. 

100,000 

60,000 

Peddie 

Hightstown,  N.  .1. 

500,000 

330,000 

Pillsbury 

Owatonna,  Minn. 

200,000 

200,000 

Ricker 

Houlton,  Me. 

100,000 

75,000 

Suffield 

Suffield,  Conn. 

125,000 

75,000 

Vermont 

Saxtons  River,  Vt. 

125,000 

75,000 

Wayland 

Beaver  Dam,  Wis. 

150,000 

Residences  kok  University  P 

ASTOR3 

100,000 

Read.iustments  and  Current 

Kxpenses 

560,000 

Total  $18,405,500  $11,544,500 

$18,405,500 


'I'olal  for  (ienoral  Kdiication  $80,010,000 


W atch ! Look ! Loosen ! 


Just  figures?  Yes,  but  eacli  figure  a beckoning  sign-post  at  the  cross-roads.  They 
show  wliere  the  Hundred  Million  Dollars  will  go. 


Permanent  Equipment  to  be  secured  before  Aprit  i, 


Kor  the  Foreign  Field 

For  the  Home  Field: 

The  National  Societies.  .$7,118,500 

The  State  Conventions 5,627,500 

The  City  Societies 2,9.35,500 


For  the  Ministers’  and  Missionaries"  Board 
For  General  Education 


.$10,646,656 


15,7 11, .500 
8,000,000 
30,010,000 


Total  for  Permanent  Equipment 


.$64,368,156 


Totat  Proposed  Operating  Budgets  for  1919-192^ 


For  the  Foreign  Field 

For  the  Home  Field: 

The  National  Societies $7,495,923 

The  State  Conventions 6,133,949 

The  City  Societies 1,878,932 


For  the  Ministers’  and  Missionaries'  Board 

For  General  Education 

For  Rehgious  Education 

For  the  Northern  Baptist  Convention 

For  the  Baptist  Young  People’s  Union 

For  the  Board  of  Promotion  and  for  Reserve  Fund 


$12,161,415 


15,508,804 

550,500 

930,000 

2,346,125 

60,000 

75,000 

4,000,000 


Total  Operating  Budgets  for  Five  Years. 


35,631,844 


Total  Requirements  before  April  1,  1924 


$100,000,000 


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“THERE  IS  THAT  SCATTERETH, 
AND  INCREASETH  YET  MORE; 
AND  THERE  IS  THAT  .WITH- 
HOLDETH  MORE  THAN  IS  MEET, 
BUT  IT  TENDETH  ONLY  TO 


WANT.” 


